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Oct 5, 2021 · Marianville and Marianvale also had Magdalene Laundries - workhouses where women were sent for a variety of reasons, including for having a child outside of marriage.
Aug 28, 2023 · In 2014, horror ensued when it was claimed that a mass grave of around 800 babies had been found, with it being alleged that bodies had been discovered in an old septic tank in County Galway,...
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Oct 2, 2017 · In 1994 a song entitled “Magdalene Laundries” appeared in her new album and discussed the injustice experienced by the inmates. It is a good example how even the popular culture abroad was influenced by these terrifying discoveries.
Aug 31, 2023 · An estimated 30,000 women are believed to have been imprisoned in Irish laundries during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the last laundry – in Waterford, in the south-east – closed only in...
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Mar 12, 2018 · Inside were the bodies of scores of unknown women: the undocumented, uncared-about inmates of one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries.
Aug 25, 2023 · Set in the fictional town of Kilkinure in 20th-century Ireland, the show captures the story of Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson), an unmarried mother who was formerly detained in a Magdalene Laundry....
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Jun 6, 2018 · Irish President Michael D Higgins has apologised to thousands of women forced to work in the country's Magdalene Laundries. Hundreds turned out in Dublin to welcome home the Magdalene...
